Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Cronhub

#Cron #Cron Monitoring #DevOps Tools 7 social mentions

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A Soft Murmur

I made a background noise website and app https://asoftmurmur.com There are a lot of improvements I want to make, but due to life commitments it has been stuck in maintenance mode for far longer than I'm comfortable with.

#Music #Work Music #Focus Music 93 social mentions

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Oku

We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to replace Goodreads with. https://oku.club Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe.

#Productivity #Books #Book Recommendation 7 social mentions

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Pterodactyl

I've been making a pretty consistent amount off my open-source side-project Pterodactyl through company sponsorships. https://pterodactyl.io.

#Gaming #Game Servers #Server Management 148 social mentions

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Careersaas

We have built a remote job search https://app.careersaas.com/portal that scrapes and indexes more than 2 million jobs. Currently offering sponsored listings - lets a user define a location for their job and whomever is searching near that geocode will see the result, according to their job experience, etc.

#Job Boards #Remote Jobs #Job Marketplace 6 social mentions

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Tadum

We built https://tadum.app, an online meeting agenda that rolls forward incomplete agenda items to the next agenda. This ends up creating a low effort paper trail, saves on meeting prep time, and keeps agendas consistently formatted/organized. It's intended for recurring weekly/monthly/quarterly meetings--we built it based on how we run meetings with our clients and are happy to see other teams jump in and have success with it.

#Meeting Management #Online Meetings #Meeting Productivity 2 social mentions

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The Funnies

Web comic newsletter: https://funnies.page Full disclosure - $500+/month in revenue, but not profit. The majority (95%) goes to the creators I work with.

#Email Newsletters #Comics And Graphi... #Social Networks 2 social mentions

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Deckmill

A friend an I made a repository for high-quality, affordable language learning flashcards around a year ago. https://deckmill.com Made using a mix of ML (translation and TTS) and human translators.

#Online Learning #Language Learning #Flash Cards 3 social mentions

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Meta Meme

I built Meta Meme, an iPhone meme making app. It nets approx $3-5k monthly. https://metameme.app/.

#Entertainment #Video Editors #GIFs 1 social mentions

Https://reslant.com - Discussion Boards for Customer Feedback.

#Customer Communication #Customer Feedback #User Feedback 1 social mentions

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Commotion

Https://commotion.page - Forms + Mail Merge for Notion.

#Productivity #No Code #No Code List 4 social mentions

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RemedyBG

#IDE #Software Development #Decompiler 6 social mentions

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40 Hadiths

3. Deals updated half-hourly Initially, it was only web and android, but now I have released iOS app as well. Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeaks.shoppingsaga iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1604578567#?platform=iphone The web version was pretty basic, so I've taken it down currently. Learning Vue JS to enhance the frontend/UI. The apps have pretty clean UI.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1220 social mentions

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Jumpshare

Https://jumpshare.com Visual communication tool with screen recording, screenshots and GIFs for macOS and Windows. Fully native apps without using Electron. I started Jumpshare as a side project many years ago and turned it into a full-time job.

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Office Suites 6 social mentions

15

Nodewood

I make Nodewood: https://nodewood.com/ It's a SaaS starter kit/boilerplate written in Node.js and Vue 3. Made almost _exactly_ $500/month last year. Would have/should have made more with proper marketing, but I've been doing probably too much engineering instead. The next release should be the one to take it out of "beta" (honestly, an arbitrarily-chosen label, especially compared to some competitors with fewer features/work put into them), and then it'll be a bit easier to work with some potential partners who would prefer to promote non-beta software.

#SaaS #JavaScript Framework #SaaS Website Builder 16 social mentions

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Folge

Working on https://folge.me - desktop app for creating step by step tutorials and guides. Unlike modern SaaS businesses I decided to charge one time price, which makes revenue very unpredictable, but usually keeping around 400-500 USD per month.

#Productivity #Customer Communication #Document Management 10 social mentions

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Linkz.ai

I've launched a couple months ago https://linkz.ai Linkz.ai is hyperlink auto-previews that keep visitors on your website. It's heavily inspired by Wikipedia & Google Docs link preview popups with special extras. For example, when you click on a YouTube hyperlink, it does not take you to Youtube website, instead it opens lightbox with Youtube video on your website. All with just one line of code. $500+/m in a first month Demo page: https://linkz-ai.webflow.io.

#No Code Tool #SaaS #UX 3 social mentions

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Twitter Archive Eraser

Twitter Archive Eraser https://delete.tweets.app/, allows users to reliably delete old tweets. Makes around $5k/month now (down from $7k/mo previously), fully passive income as I haven't worked on any new features in the app for the past 1.5 years or so.

#Twitter #Productivity #Tech 2 social mentions

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Voice In

#Transcription #Productivity #AI 1 social mentions

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Dictanote

#Knowledge Sharing #Speech Recognition And Processing #Knowledge Search 1 user reviews

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Nice Sex Tracker

I built an iOS sex tracking app, Nice. https://nicetracker.app/ There were no sex tracking apps on the App Store that weren't focused the menstrual cycle, so I built my own. It now includes cool features such as syncing across iCloud devices, location recording, STD/STI tests, and most importantly, stats!

#iPhone #Dating #Messaging 3 social mentions

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Kbee

We launched this last year: https://kbee.app Kbee turns a Google Drive folder into a searchable wiki for you and your team. We're currently doing ~$1500/month in MRR.

#Customer Service #WiKis #Help Desk 5 social mentions

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Lacona

I wrote and maintain Lacona, a Mac productivity App (https://lacona.app). The majority of my revenue comes from being a part of the Setapp subscription service.

#Mac #Productivity #App Launcher 2 social mentions

24

Zlipa

I'm trying to dispel the myth that all good dotcoms are already taken and/or unaffordable with https://zlipa.com.

#Domain Names #Domain Marketplace #Branding 2 social mentions

25

OpenIn

Https://loshadki.app, between $800 to $2000 a month. Year ago decided to learn macos development. Made 4 apps, two of them make the most OpenIn and ShellHistory.

#Project Management #Website Testing #Webapp Testing 10 social mentions

I run https://stickler-ci.com While it is not currently at 500/month but it has been there in the past. I started this as a way to improve review speed at a previous position and it was well received, so I converted the prototype into a it's current form and have been running it for a few years now.

Time is money and https://reactivedoc.com/ saves me ~500 minutes/month and I also have a paying user. I made it because I needed a simple, self-hosted tool to create documentation with "parameters". The output is a self-contained html file. Coupled with an external runner, it's a great automation tool for simple tasks.

#Productivity #Developer Tools #Tech 4 social mentions

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FiveM

#Gaming #Game Mod #Games 39 social mentions

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Packetriot

I build a secure tunneling service called Packetriot ($2k/mo) https://packetriot.com. Similar to ngrok with our own differences and approach. I also publish another product called Spokes Gateway which builds on the tunneling server and includes support for service meshes, high-availability, clusters and some other features. I'm building a separate website for Spokes and its related software, hoping to publish it soon. It's eventual home will be https://spokes.network.

#Localhost Tools #Proxy #Tunnel 10 social mentions

#Custom Canvas #Shipping and Tracking #eCommerce

Made this Amazon product ideas search engine: https://amalytics.com Not sure where to take it next as there’s well funded competition and conversions/revenue have plateaued….

#SaaS #Startups #eCommerce 1 social mentions